Israel News

Jerusalem — Israel, considered a bastion of press freedom in the Middle East, is the only country in the region to achieve “Free Press” status in Freedom of the Press 2015, the latest edition of an annual report published by Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world.

This month’s National Geographic magazine features an interview with Raphael Mechoulam, the Israeli chemist known worldwide as the founder of medical marijuana research, as part of a cover story entitled “Weed: The New Science of Marijuana.”